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The next page is here: faile35.deviantart.com/art/Boo… . For more information on the entire series, read the "'Demon's Due' Defined" journal entry here faile35.deviantart.com/journal… or the "'Demon's Due' Plus" journal entry here faile35.deviantart.com/journal… .

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"Something I've overloo-..." Urged by its own forward momentum, Elina's mind stumbles over the connection before she can backtrack internally. "If Zirena's additions to the mural represent something in the past, then that boy in the right eye-socket must represent something that happened some time ago, perhaps before my uncle began work on the Bookbinding or even before Avora came to work with Maladyne." Behind her spectacles, the Scholar's brow knits in concentration, forcing her mind out radially.

"Or, to affect the horological algorithm, it could represent something even further in the past than that. Something,... or someone. Perhaps the boy is not the symbol, but a real person? A real person who has hidden away the Demon's identity fragment? But whom? And, even if I knew who it was, that still leaves the missing symbol." Momentarily, the Scholar's eyes leave the mural to gaze down at her own sandals, peering out from beneath the lower hem of her dress on the dark flagstones. "If only she'd had a chance to write a message. Anything to tell me the symbol or the identity of the-..." The thought of the flagstones beneath her bearing a written message brings another image to mind. Hastily scrawled on a wall, apparently by the Seeress herself before she had been committed to the Otherness by the mirror, it had seemed nonsensically simple and direct. An answer without a question. "...or the identity of the boy."

And suddenly, Elina knows where the missing identity fragment hides, and the symbol itself becomes clear. There is one more stop to make before she can be sure.

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My computer's wireless card went out last night. Got a replacement installed and I'm back in business this evening, but I'm now a page behind. Other, fun announcements need to be made over the weekend.

Elina was drawn using Emily's references from Feathered-pics .This one was another favorite--she called it, "Epiphany." Thanks a bunch, Emily!

Enjoy!

Note: Bookbinding and Demon's Due are a work of fantasy and fiction. The artist/creator in no way condones real mistreatment of this kind toward any woman or man, by living person, gremlin, plant, assassin, ratman, viscous fluid, programmed device, animated home furnishings, or otherworldly spiritual beings. Furthermore, the artist opposes the marginalizing and restriction of women in general by any institution, political and/or religious, including those which have individual women amongst their membership touting/promoting their own happiness within that institution as evidence that ALL women should feel the same way. This includes the religion I was raised in and which I have utterly discarded from my life over this and other issues.

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The next page is here: faile35.deviantart.com/art/Boo… . For more information on the entire series, read the "'Demon's Due' Defined" journal entry here faile35.deviantart.com/journal… or the "'Demon's Due' Plus" journal entry here faile35.deviantart.com/journal… .

***********************************************

"Something I've overloo-..." Urged by its own forward momentum, Elina's mind stumbles over the connection before she can backtrack internally. "If Zirena's additions to the mural represent something in the past, then that boy in the right eye-socket must represent something that happened some time ago, perhaps before my uncle began work on the Bookbinding or even before Avora came to work with Maladyne." Behind her spectacles, the Scholar's brow knits in concentration, forcing her mind out radially.

"Or, to affect the horological algorithm, it could represent something even further in the past than that. Something,... or someone. Perhaps the boy is not the symbol, but a real person? A real person who has hidden away the Demon's identity fragment? But whom? And, even if I knew who it was, that still leaves the missing symbol." Momentarily, the Scholar's eyes leave the mural to gaze down at her own sandals, peering out from beneath the lower hem of her dress on the dark flagstones. "If only she'd had a chance to write a message. Anything to tell me the symbol or the identity of the-..." The thought of the flagstones beneath her bearing a written message brings another image to mind. Hastily scrawled on a wall, apparently by the Seeress herself before she had been committed to the Otherness by the mirror, it had seemed nonsensically simple and direct. An answer without a question. "...or the identity of the boy."

And suddenly, Elina knows where the missing identity fragment hides, and the symbol itself becomes clear. There is one more stop to make before she can be sure.

***********************************************

My computer's wireless card went out last night. Got a replacement installed and I'm back in business this evening, but I'm now a page behind. Other, fun announcements need to be made over the weekend.

Elina was drawn using Emily's references from Feathered-pics .This one was another favorite--she called it, "Epiphany." Thanks a bunch, Emily!

Enjoy!

Note: Bookbinding and Demon's Due are a work of fantasy and fiction. The artist/creator in no way condones real mistreatment of this kind toward any woman or man, by living person, gremlin, plant, assassin, ratman, viscous fluid, programmed device, animated home furnishings, or otherworldly spiritual beings. Furthermore, the artist opposes the marginalizing and restriction of women in general by any institution, political and/or religious, including those which have individual women amongst their membership touting/promoting their own happiness within that institution as evidence that ALL women should feel the same way. This includes the religion I was raised in and which I have utterly discarded from my life over this and other issues.